João Leal
Integrated Member of uniMAD
Bio
B. Porto | Portugal | 1977.
Practitioner and teacher. Participates in solo and group exhibitions since 2001.
His artworks use still and moving images as well as sound and they are presented
in exhibition, projection and installation formats. His main interests as a
practitioner are the ideas of structure (and its multiple connotations), the
“proximity/distance” dichotomy and the ways of occupying the exhibition space.
In 2005 won, ex-aequo, the "Pedro Miguel Frade" award, from the Portuguese
Centre of Photography, with the work "Night Order”. In 2018 won the aquisition
award of the XX Cerveira Biennale.
PhD in Visual Arts (practice based in instalation, photography and videoart)
from the University of South Wales (supervised by Mark Durden and Lisa Barnard)
in connection with the European Centre for Documentary Research. Has a degree in
Audiovisual Communication Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto,
majoring in Photography. Worked in São João and D.Maria II National Theatres,
RTP Portuguese television, and “Casa da Música”. Full time professor in the
Department of Image Arts P.Porto | ESMAD and member of the UNIMAD research unit.
Research interests
- Art Installations
- Photography
- Videoart
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